**Date:** 1906
**Source:** Lenin Collection, vol. 26
**Pages:** 37–38

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Dear An[atoly] Vasilievich]!

We've been sitting here in Geneva with my wife for several days now...
It's melancholy, damn it, to return again to this cursed Geneva, but there's nothing to be done about it! After the debacle in Finland, there was nothing for it but to transfer *Proletarii* abroad. The collegium decided as much. The only question is whether to Geneva or somewhere else. We're making inquiries for now, but I personally think that Geneva and London are the only places where one is free. And London is expensive.

I've read your entire pamphlet on Stuttgart: the III appendix arrived terribly late, and I barely managed to read it just before my departure. In my opinion, it turned out very well, and all the comrades were very pleased with the pamphlet. We all thought it unnecessary to "correct" it: it would be a great pity to erase your colors and spoil a vividly written work. Besides, there is no syndicalism in it: there are only, in my view, a series of considerable careless passages "for Plekhanov & Co. to use." Have you seen his cavils and vile jabs in *Obrazovanie* or *Sovremenny Mir*?¹ We shall always have such opponents and must be three times more careful. Furthermore, you also forgot about the Socialist Revolutionaries, who have long since been attacking the German Social Democrats, using the critique of syndicalists and distorting that critique into an assault on Marxism.

I don't know whether our people will manage to publish your pamphlet now. It's difficult to publish these days.

Did you receive my 1st volume 2?

How are you? How is the heir? They say you had a splendid trip with Gorky?

Write what you're working on. We are counting on you certainly both for contributions to *Proletarii* and for reports. Isn't that right?

6.
13. I. 1908. [Geneva]

Where is Gorky? I wrote to him at Capri (villa Blaesus). Will it reach him?

Pressing your hand firmly.

Your Lenin.

Address: Mr. Vl. Oulianoff.
17. Rue des deux Ponts. 17.
(chez Küpfer)
Genève.

LETTERS TO A. V. LUNACHARSKY
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¹ Plekhanov developed his viewpoint on the professional movement in the articles: "Mannheim" in nos. 9–10 of the journal *Sovremennaya Zhizn'* for 1906 and "Critique of the Theory and Practice of Syndicalism" in nos. 11 and 12 of the journal *Sovremenny Mir* for 1907.

² The reference is to the collection of articles by Lenin (Vl. Ilyich) "Over 12 Years. Volume One. Two Tendencies in Russian Marxism and Russian Social Democracy. St. Petersburg, 1908" (in fact the volume came out in late November 1907).